Evan Selinger (RIT) and Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State): Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture. From Liminalities, Deanna Shoemaker (Monmouth): Cartoon Transgressions: Citlali, La Chicana Super Hero as Community Activist; and a review of Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure and Social Movement by Benjamin Shepard. Should the government tax stupidity? How $8-a-dozen eggs threaten real food reforms: If eating well becomes a privilege for the rich, then America won't get healthier. A review of Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little by Christopher Johnson. Fortune-telling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful; unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person with the cards. Mark Strauss on ten notable apocalypses that (obviously) didn’t happen. Valley of the Trolls: It's the rare star who can withstand the predatory cameras of TMZ on TV. A review of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden by Brook Wilensky-Lanford (and more). Why art failed us after 9/11: Nick Gillespie on trying to make sense of senselessness. Share or Die: Youth in Recession, a new anthology by Generation Y writers, is part survival handbook, part manifesto — Scott McLemee interviews the editor. Nancy Berns on her book Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What it Costs Us. Josh Rothman on why moral leaders are annoying. What would happen if the world stop spinning? When the boss gets busted: Marisa M. Kashino on survival stories from the front lines of political scandal. A review of The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America’s Rush to War by David Willman. Greg Ip on the Republicans’ new voodoo economics. Beyond "D'oh!": Simpsons quotes for everyday use.
